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Tanya Shanker
Tanya Shanker (Born November 21st, 2005) is an emerging singer-songwriter from Bangalore, India. In less than a year she has performed with some of the countries big wigs that include Girish Pradhan and the Chronicles, Perfect Strangers (Hornbill winners), Carlton Braganza (OPUS), Ritwik Bhattarcharya (Pineapple Express), Sherdian Brass (Mud Road), Sylvester Pradeep (The Stage), Abhijit Gupta (The Stage), Joel Jacob (The Stage), Shalini Mohan (Lagori, Ginny and the bottle), AKOG (Christ College B’o’B winners), Kenishaa Francis (Queen Kay), and Sanjay Chadrakanth. (Quad).

Tanya is 14 yet she has an old soul. She turned professional in 2018 under the guidance of her manager & mentor Richard Andrew (MOKSHA ACADEMY) who has been training her since she was 10 years old. She has since been performing on a regular basis across the country, apart from writing & composing her own music. She performed the All India Music festival Hornbill along with the band named Perfect Strangers in Nagaland. She became one of the youngest artists to perform in such a large venue at the age of 14. She was also invited to perform at the international Grace Hopper Technological Conference,Bangalore in front of the biggest women technologists from all over the globe. She performed in front of more than 5,000 people and released a music video for women’s empowerment called “We will” for the same.

Her first single “Thank You Mum” released in March 2019 went viral with over 23k views in a week and got a lot of press coverage (Times of India + DC + online media/shares) and loads of accolades from the Industry veterans.

Her second single ‘Be Yourself’ (released on Oct 2019) is a song about being yourself and not giving into peer pressure, and again garnered over 27k views.

Tanya’s debut album is being launched this Nov 14th, 2020, the album has 7 tracks in the pop-rock genre and has been produced by Richard Andrew. These songs were written over a period of two years, starting off when she was 13 and cover topics that are typical with teenagers like love, pressure, addiction to a device, procrastination, etc. The album features many top artists & musicians from India, France and Australia being featured on the album. All these artists have been a huge part of Tanya’s musical journey. The first song “Love hasn’t found me yet” is a rock ballad about being heartbroken and in best described by her:

“At one point of time in my life, I went through some heartbreak after liking someone for 3 years. So, after going through this breakup, I was feeling rather insecure and lonely because all of my friends seemed to have someone in their lives, and I envied the fact that they did. It was a tiny feeling, but I decided to blow it up and make a big deal about it by writing a song (like I always do 😉). Of course, now I feel much more confident and I don’t really want to get into a relationship because I want to work on my self-growth. But this song represents an important period in my life and is really special to me.” TANYA SHANKER

The album will be available on SPOTIFY, I-TUNES, Google, Amazon and all major streaming platforms.